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This paper analyzes some aspects related to the public debate about immigrant population and the construction of a national identity in Argentina during the first decades of the 20 th. century. Immigration, education and nationalism were the thee ideas which originated the debate on a possible model of country and constituted a field of tensions that covered the period of the great immigration wave. This paper will, in the light of these reflections, illustrate some of the features that these aspects acquired in a rural area. Southeast of the province of La Pampa the largest number of migratory population was farmed by groups of people who migrated from eastern Europe. The presence of Jewish colonies, such as the Narcisse Leven colony, meant the birth of debates on these groups which seemed to question the basis of the "Argentine Nationality". This text emphasizes the complexs relationship among immigration, education, and ethnicity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a context of invisibility and emerging struggle, indigenous groups build and reconstruct identity and community senses within a process that is both political and cultural, and which collides with the contradictions of ethnic definitions and the strategic essentialisms that re-signify criteria of authenticity. This paper seeks to account for processes of communalization, which took and are currently taking place in the town of Miguel Riglos (La Pampa), paying special attention to the particular case of Eusebia Farías community. Before this, the text will review the conditions of their invisibility, which start by the late 19th century, and the form of occupation of the territory by these indigenous groups to account for the continuity of this population up to the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the formation and activities of the Argentine Patriotic League in the National Territory of La Pampa from 1919 to 1930 and it examines the relationships between this institution and the particular problems of the territory. The presentation, based on information drawn from national and territorial census, judicial proceedings and territorial media, entails a consideration of the activities and the internal organization of the League in the Territory of La Pampa as well as a discussion on the social impact of the institution has on the territorial social life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]